Provide partial RTOS API for bare metal builds - things that
can be done in a single threaded environment.
Allows more code to work in both RTOS and bare metal builds without
change, and in particular gives easy access to the ability to
efficiently wait for something occurring in interrupt.
Available in bare-metal:
* ThisThread
* osThreadFlagsSet to set flags on main thread (can be set from IRQ)
* EventFlags (can be set from IRQ)
* Semaphores (can be released from IRQ)
* Mutex (dummy implementation)
Not useful:
* ConditionVariable (could only be signalled from 2nd thread)
* RtosTimer (calls in a second thread context)
* Thread
Unimplemented:
* Mail, Queue, MemoryPool
Possible future work:
* ConditionVariableCS to act as IRQ signalled ConditionVariable
Matches rest of RTOS class timeout parameters by using the unit name. Remove ambigious statement in reference to 0 ms being no-timeout as a timeout of 0 causes the function to not block and return immediately (osWaitForever is used as no timeout as it will wait forever)
Kevin Bracey
kegilbert
Marc Emmers